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Sunday, January 23, 2011

A day at the tennis

We often head down to Melbourne at this time of year to watch some matches.
I DID mean to check the entry conditions - like whether I could take in my camera. I NOW know that telephoto camera lenses with a focal length capacity greater than 200mm are not allowed. Luckily as my bag was inspected at the gate I had my Tamron 28-75 on the camera, yet later I saw dozens of other people with 300 zoom lenses on their cameras. My point and shoot has a 10x zoom anyhow -  it is obviously very difficult to effectively police these things, but the very big lenses are definitely for the professionals!
The best place for up-close photos in on the outside courts. I got to watch Roddick practicing.
I'm not sure if we're getting out of touch or whether it's just that are just more Eastern European players these days but I don't seem to know many of the players. We watched Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of RUS  vs Iveta Benesova (below) of CZE, a very impressive game and I enjoyed taking photos regardless!
Zoe had a friend to keep her company.

So one way or another we all kept ourselves entertained!

4 comments:

  1. Wow, that's a HUGE lens!!! I've never been to a tennis match--at least it looks like you were in the shade!

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  2. Your photos are really magnificent!!!
    And thank you for sharing the realization of your album with us. It will be very useful for me. Good week!

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  3. Holy crackamole, now that's a big lens. Looks like a mighty hot day.

    We were just commenting tonight about last time I went to the tennis I saw Yannick Noah play. How long ago was that?!?!?! te he. Showing my age now.

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  4. What a lens!!! I would not be able to even lift the camera.

    You took some wonderful photos. Well done!

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